JO-ANN Smurthwaite plans to visit as many towns and villages in the Forest as she can in the next fortnight collecting for the charity which meant so much to her dad and his family.
She wants to do it to say thank-you to the Marie Curie service which provided so much care for Victor Waite at home in Lydney before he died last November.
The fund is holding its "Daffodil Day" on March 18 and the money raised nationally will all go towards helping patients with home care.
"They can do such a lot these days with chemotherapy and so on but my Dad was told there was nothing they could do for him and he was virtually sent home to die.
"If it hadn't been for the Marie Curie service I don't know what we would have done.
"They were wonderful," said Jo-Ann, who was born and raised in the Forest although she now lives in Gloucester.
Mr Waite was buried at Awre. "He was very popular. There was standing room only in the church there," she said.